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Scribd subscription service adds seven more magazines

Scribd has just announced it’s adding several more popular magazines to its $8.99 per month subscription service, including The Atlantic, Fast Company, Inc., Mother Jones, Nautilus, Newsweek, and Popular Science. Scribd added its first set of popular magazines including Time, Fortune, Money, and People in November. This new addition suggests that the first set of magazines has been well-received.

If so, it’s not surprising. Magazines seem like a natural fit for a subscription service of this nature. Periodicals will add new content periodically, and their publishers are used to receiving revenue on a subscription basis—unlike book publishers, who are having an awkward time coming up with a workable subscription revenue model. Of course, this is far from the first digital magazine subscription service, but pairing them with books could serve to entice people who weren’t interested enough to sign up for just one medium but could be drawn in by paying one price for two at once.

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TeleRead Editor and Senior Writer Chris Meadows has been writing for TeleRead--except for a brief interruption--since 2006. Son of two librarians, he has worked on a third-party help line for Best Buy and holds degrees in computer science and communications. He clearly personifies TeleRead's motto: "For geeks who love books--and book-lovers who love gadgets." Chris lives in Indianapolis and is active in the gamer community.
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